Miss Dorothy Sayers on the War
The annual Christmas Number of The Spectator, which appears next week, will be a greatly enlarged issue, published at the usual price. The prospect of a heavy demand empha- sises khe necessity, to which attention has been called already, for readers to place a regular order for The Spectator either with a newsagent or with this office ; the number of copies on casual sale has, under present conditions, to be much reduced. The principal feature of the Christmas Number (which will include an enlarged literary section, containing reviews by Peter Fleming, Edward Sackville West, H. E. Bates, William Plomer, and others) will be a long first instalment of a running commentary on current events by Miss Dorothy L. Sayers, in the form mainly of letters from the characters she has immortalised in her lengthening list of detective-novels—Lord Peter Wimsey, Harriet Vane, the Duchess of Denver, Inspector Parker, Miss Climpson, and the rest. Miss Sayers' contribution, which marks some- thing of a new departure in literary technique, will be con- tinued weekly.
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